But yeah: I wonder if NoSQL's success isn't due to people who think SQL is too hard to learn, much like Extreme Programming's success is due to people who want to code but not do the boring test and documentation part.

It's not just about time zones. Jokes have to be in the morning of the 1st of April, you have to make exactly 1, and they have to be funny. As a slashdot concession, you can just replace some value for funny, I guess, but the other rules stand!

I hate 1st of April, I was going to have a seizure....
Anyway, I know that SQL is not the best query language around. I mean it is even open to debate if it is a language. But there are two features make it vital; It does the job and, there is a strong installed base, which provides enough programmer work force with experience...

Granted I know this is an April Fools joke. But..."PostgreSQL project is caving in to recent trends" How about the trend of Hand Made file IO that is on the rise too. Or other methods of storing data. The fact is that is a lot of programmers are idiots when programming in SQL and code it the wrong way where it ends up hindering their overall use.

Sure NoSQL has some advantages over SQL but it has its disadvantages too. It is a tool you can keep in you cap but I don't see why it needs to be replaced.

From the point of view of us solidly pre-singularity humans, what would be the practical difference between a god, God, or some post-singularity entity? They're all capable of things that we can't imagine and could crush us like a bug if they so choose.

Novell today announced that it will pay Oracle Corp $500 million in cash and $550 million in stock to buy MySQL.

This is seen as a defensive tactic to fend off the hostile takeover bid from Elliott Associates LP, their third-largest shareholder.. A news release from the company said "This is the best long-term alternative

That's when you mention QUEL and I don't have the faintest idea what it is.

Yep. The NoSQL crowd seems to be unhappy with relational data management. The idea of PostgreSQL going NoSQL by moving back to QUEL is one of the funniest jokes I have seen in a long time. And most people didn't get it because they don't know what QUEL is......

I have never worked with QUEL but it seems that there are only a few things that need fixing with it to make it a very, very nice (near perfect) relational db interface lang

Let's see - it's April 1 all day. At least I think that's how it works. Some of us wait all year for this shit. Go get a life for the day if you have keyboard stuck up your ass. I remember a time when ALL/. stories would be bogus on April Fool's. Admit it - you're whining because you're afraid you won't be able to figure out which is which! Go suck on your thumb until you grow up enough to not cry bloody hell when people try to have a little fun. Or maybe you whine like that every day - and we just get to

that this is a joke. In 1987, I graduated Cooper Union, I worked at Citibank in Funds Transfer and I was programming in QUEL on a Commercial Ingres system. Having learned both relational algebra and calculus in school, I was pleased to be able to use the more expressive calculus. Alas, it was not meant to be. Citi started cutting over to Oracle. In then left. A few years (and jobs) later I started working with Sybase. In SQL. It took me weeks to understand how to use the algebra again. We'd go a long way if

It wouldn't be that bad. The old versions of Postgres actually used QUEL so I would expect they would go back to Postgres95 then see what needed to be done to map the new syntax into the planning trees. Honestly a QUEL module would be pretty cool.

Way back when, there was a relational database named Postgres that used a query language called QUEL. As SQL caught on, they had to support it, so they replaced the QUEL support with SQL support and renamed the database PostgreSQL. This is the database that we use today.

The whole joke is that they're going retro.

(Anyone who actually wants to try out an implementation of QUEL can use Ingres, which is also open source now.)